IN A NEWSREEL OF
President Richard Nixon's first inauguration — a time of deep national division over the Vietnam war — a girl of about 12 years stood alone holding high a hand-lettered placard: "Please unite us.
As a Relatively New Resident
in the United States, I've been interested to find that many people here don't vote say they abstain because they don't think that voting affects their lives.
WHEN I WAS
Midwifery Sister in Guy's Hospital London, I never believed there could be any viable way to heal physical conditions except through conventional medication.
In the face of the events
in Beslan, Russia, where children became the strategic target of terrorists—separatists on the fringes of the Muslim world—life in many parts of the world came to a halt.